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Re: USAGE: Name adaptation (fuit: GSF revisited)

From:caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 16, 2007, 15:14
>Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...> wrote:
>So how do people render names in their conlangs? Do names have >meaning in your conlangs or not?
Personal names in Senjecas are derived from natural phenomena: the "running bear" system. But the name is taken from the animal class (-es), plant class (-is), or object class (-os) and put in the loquent class (-us). Bear = øxþos; running bear = cersøxþus. Note the use of a compound noun, not of adjective + noun. Should this be the name of a centaur, it would be put in the aberrant class (-øs): cersøxþøs. BTW, ø = /O/. Place names are put in the abstract class (-as) and there are several ways to derive them. 1. Literal translation: Amsterdam = amstelufðijas, uf- (water prefix) + ðijos (embankment) = dike or dam; Copenhagen = peerĸafnas, peerus (merchant) + ĸafnos (harbor). 2. The first name by which the site was known: Paris = lutetïas; Budapest = aĸüinĸas (the first settlement on the site was the Roman town of Aquincum). (The 2nd & 6th letters in the name are the letter kra from the Greenlandic alphabet. It is visible on the preview page, but I won't know about the send page until I send it.) Sometimes a spelling must be altered to conform to Senjecan phonetics: Moscow = mosĸëvas (the epenthetic ë is necessary to avoid the consonant cluster); Douglas = duqlas (the g undergoes lenition to avoid an initial stop in the cluster). My name Charles must be rendered as carlus. c = /ts/; /tS/ does not exist in Senjecas. In high school my alegebra teacher was a Franciscan sister from Ireland. She called me /tSa4\lEs/. Charlie

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